MisunderstoodMy other half rang a courier today to get a disc sent over to a client. The courier company asked what it was she was sending. "A computer disc", she said.
Half an hour later, 3 blokes in a van turned up. They looked a little disappointed to be handed a floppy disc: they were all prepared to shift a computer desk across London.
Have you been utterly misunderstood recently?
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chthonic, Thu 6 Oct 2005, 23:06)
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Your dog will be shotI was staying with my Italian friend in Rome a couple of years ago, and she was talking about her imminent trip to Sardinia with her parents and dog, Lara.
"I'm really looking forward to it," she said, "But I'm worried about Lara with the sheep."
"Oh yes," I replied, imagining her concern about her over-excitable dog chasing the no doubt numerable sheep in the Sardinian countryside, "You know if your dog is running around doing that in England, it could be shot."
My friend gasped in horror and confusion and told her mother what I had just said, who also looked at me with a look that clearly wondered what kind of barbaric nation I lived in.
Turned out she was worried about the dog getting sea-sick... on the ship. I was too embarrassed to explain.
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